To each his own. I lived in San Francisco for 30 years. I lived in Richmond VA for the 10 years before.

I now live in a nice suburb. It has bunnies and the occasional coyote. It is green. It is quiet.

I don’t hear sirens all night. I don’t hear shouters all night. I don’t hear my neighbors footfalls. Open the window and I hear song birds.

On r/sanfrancisco someone was making a case for how safe it is. That simply was not my experience. I was assaulted and beaten one morning in front my flat. My garage has been broken into 4 times. Before my neighborhood was gentrified a few years back there was an open gang war with multiple murders a block from my house. The killings stopped when when the thugs were priced out of the market creating another problem of haves and cant possibly ever haves.

The only thing I miss is the corner store that stocked bumpers and the variety of high quality food.